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He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
Karl Kraus
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
Karl Kraus
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
Karl Kraus
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Karl Kraus
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.
Karl Kraus
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
Karl Kraus
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
Karl Kraus
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it.
Karl Kraus
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books.
Karl Kraus
Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines Nature can rely on progress it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus
Occupation:
Austrian Playwright
Born:
April 28, 1874
Died:
June 12, 1936
Quotes count:
163
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Karl Kraus
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